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'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it''You have made another human being happy. There is no greater accomplishment.' -bobbym

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I did not.

I will have to find a way to represent that grid as a martrix first

'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it''You have made another human being happy. There is no greater accomplishment.' -bobbym

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It sounds like Eihh-tty Fowr. Why does it matter?

'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it''You have made another human being happy. There is no greater accomplishment.' -bobbym

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kind of defeats the whole purpose of 'computer math'. What if it was a much larger matrix?

'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it''You have made another human being happy. There is no greater accomplishment.' -bobbym

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That is correct and this is the discussion going on over there:

Finn Hulse, 13 6 days, 7 hours ago

Okay... I just solved this but I forgot which rectangle I found... But pretty much you look for large gaps and then do some counting... Or you could write an immensely complex computer program... But I like my solution. But how is it that as soon as he had posted this problem, it was assigned a rating? How come I can't do that with my problems? Wahh... How do I do the same?

Thaddeus Abiy

Image files are extremely hard to parse,hence the lack of CS solutions..It would have been great if the grid had been provided in a text file or something.

Lokesh Sharma, 18, India 1 day, 14 hours ago

Thought a lot about this problem. Then, eventually I used my old friend MS Paint and got it correct in second shot ^_^

'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it''You have made another human being happy. There is no greater accomplishment.' -bobbym

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bobbym wrote:

Then the questioner would not know the answer either.

so there is no trick?

'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it''You have made another human being happy. There is no greater accomplishment.' -bobbym

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OK I'll look for a tric but first give me an way to parse the image.

'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it''You have made another human being happy. There is no greater accomplishment.' -bobbym

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I know that already.

How would you convert the image into that array?

'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it''You have made another human being happy. There is no greater accomplishment.' -bobbym

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Fill the array with zeros first and the label the drawing across the top 1 to 38 and down the side 1 to 43. So A[[1,5]] is the first dark box. A[[3,1]] is the second dark box. A[[3,12]] is the third dark box etc.

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

I agree with you regarding the satisfaction and importance of actually computing some numbers. I can't tell you how often I see time and money wasted because someone didn't bother to run the numbers.

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Would you assign the black boxes by hand even if there were thousands of them?

'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it''You have made another human being happy. There is no greater accomplishment.' -bobbym

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One problem at a time. Why worry about a condition that does not even exist? There is not thousands of blackened boxes. There is just a handful. Always do the minimum amount of work and do not try to generalize for the possibility that there are thousands of boxes.

This goes hand in hand with the Niharika post. Do you remember her problem and my comment about multiple choice questions. You did not follow up on that. You should have because these are all tricks to solving problems in math or even in life. You are allowed to exploit the problem itself to solve it.

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

I agree with you regarding the satisfaction and importance of actually computing some numbers. I can't tell you how often I see time and money wasted because someone didn't bother to run the numbers.

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I have solved the problem by asking a 93 year old guy the solution. Does it count?

'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it''You have made another human being happy. There is no greater accomplishment.' -bobbym

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That is not horrendous thinking. It is just your viewpoint.

I did not do what those guys did because I gain more pleasure by solving the problem than to just answer it

'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it''You have made another human being happy. There is no greater accomplishment.' -bobbym

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OK, I will go to sleep. HAhahhaha!

'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it''You have made another human being happy. There is no greater accomplishment.' -bobbym

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OK I am done

'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.''God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it''You have made another human being happy. There is no greater accomplishment.' -bobbym